Environmentalists across the political spectrum have exhibited everything from anger to puzzlement over US President-Elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate Scott Pruitt to head up the Environmental Protection Agency. Some in the restoration economy, like those in renewable energies, say the move could hobble a vibrant part of the US economy.

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12/08/2016
US President-Elect Donald Trump is inheriting a healthy system of ecosystem markets, thanks in part to measures implemented by the Obama administration, but the exact growth has been difficult to ...Read More...

12/05/2016
Two new reports show that global corporations are both victims and perpetrators of deforestation. One report shows they could lose nearly $1 trillion per year if current trends continue. The ...Read More...

12/05/2016
For practitioners working in the biodiversity conservation space, the global biodiversity talks getting underway in Mexico will be one of implementation and for figuring out the tools and methods ...Read More...

12/04/2016
When Donald Trump won the US presidential election, climate optimists said US cities and states would fill any leadership gaps that opened at the federal level. Now six US states have agreed to ...Read More...

12/02/2016
If a Trump presidency neuters the US federal government’s efforts to combat climate change, as many expect, then “non-state” actors like cities and companies – as well as consumers and watchdogs ...Read More...

11/29/2016
Over 100 nations identify forest conservation and restoration as part of their strategy to fight climate change, something Forest Trends' founding President and CEO Michael Jenkins considers a ...Read More...

11/29/2016
The 30 year old marketplace for ecological assets, recently valued at $100 billion, may be changing the face of real estate in the United States. A long-time market analyst says these changes ...Read More...

11/28/2016
Real social and economic dislocation led nearly half of US voters to reject the political establishment and elect Donald Trump as the nation's next president despite racist and xenophobic ...Read More...

11/23/2016
The Climate Trust recently secured a $5.5 million Program-Related Investment to seed its carbon investment fund, which launched earlier this year with funding from a Conservation Innovation ...Read More...

11/18/2016
The large floodplains and broad vegetated buffers of a stream restoration site near Raleigh, North Carolina significantly reduced flooding when Hurricane Matthew tore through the state. As the ...Read More...

11/28/2016
Two weeks after the US presidential election, the US role in the Paris Climate Agreement remains foggy. While few expect the US to continue its leadership role in the fight to slow climate ...Read More...

11/16/2016
A new online tool charts a commodities' journey from production to consumption, and can aid companies and practitioners' efforts to cleanse deforestation from supply chains. The sector is calling ...Read More...

11/15/2016
Climate talks are continuing here in Marrakesh, with world leaders vowing to either reach out to the new US administration or continue without them. Investors, meanwhile say the business case for ...Read More...

11/14/2016
The indigenous people of Peru’s Amarakaeri Communal Reserve are conserving 400,000 hectares of forest while also feeding their families – in part by sustainably harvesting Brazil nuts. To do so, ...Read More...

11/13/2016
The indigenous people within the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve live along the border between Brazil and Peru, and they also act as a buffer between uncontacted people of the Amazon and the outside ...Read More...

11/17/2016
During UN climate talks on Wednesday, business leaders stressed the importance of aligning business and policy goals in order to deliver the best results for both sectors. The business community ...Read More...

11/07/2016
The Paris Climate Agreement created a framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, in part by funneling money into programs that promote better management of forests, farms and fields. ...Read More...

11/07/2016
Just days after the Paris Agreement enters into force, UN climate talks resume in Marrakesh, Morocco, where negotiators will focus on charting a roadmap to fully operationalize the historic ...Read More...

11/04/2016
The global narrative on agriculture expanded after Rio+20 to "sustainable intensification" and is now moving towards a vision, laid out in the Sustainable Development Goals, of sustainable ...Read More...

11/04/2016
Twenty percent of the forests and farmland of Latin America and the Caribbean have been degraded by over logging, overgrazing, and overplowing, according to the World Resources Institute, which ...Read More...

11/02/2016
In the lead-up to last year’s Paris Climate Talks, thousands of companies pledged to slash their greenhouse-gas emissions – hundreds of them by reducing their impact on forests. One year on, ...Read More...

11/01/2016
While it isn't without policy uncertainty, the relative stability of California's carbon cap and trade scheme has strengthened both compliance and voluntary carbon markets, says The Climate ...Read More...

11/01/2016
While most agree forests have a critical role to play in curbing climate change, forest protection programs continue to struggle to attract capital. But a new investment mechanism could help ...Read More...

10/28/2016
Watershed investment programs can reduce the costs of managing water while delivering community benefits but they're underused because mobilizing support is difficult and funding can be hard to ...Read More...

10/27/2016
The Yawanawa tribe of the Amazon rainforest are in the midst of a rebirth, one that involves access to education, leadership roles for women and economic projects that sustainably utilize forest ...Read More...

10/26/2016
Companies that focus only on the bottom line often can't see over the horizon, and they certainly can't see how their activities impact others. That impact, long recognized as a looming risk, is ...Read More...

10/25/2016
Year-end climate talks begin on November 7, and the latest State of Forest Carbon Finance Report, to be released Wednesday, documents a massive uptick in forest-carbon finance – an uptick that ...Read More...

10/20/2016
As degraded watersheds drag California into its sixth year of drought, a new law makes forests, farms, and fields eligible for infrastructure funding – and the state is hardly alone, according to ...Read More...

10/13/2016
Consumer-facing companies like Danone and Mars have pledged to slash their greenhouse-gas emissions, in part by purging deforestation from their supply chains – a process that requires helping ...Read More...